Waimanalo Beach
Waimanalo Bay Beach Park is located in the center of Waimanalo Beach, one of the longest white sand beaches on Oahu. The entire beach is over three miles long, but the portion of it fronting the park is approximately three-quarters of a mile long. The beach is wide, and the ocean bottom slopes gently to overhead depths across a series of shallow sandbars. Small, one-to two-foot high trade wind-generated surf breaks on the sandbars all year round. Facilities in the seventy-five acre park include restrooms, showers, picnic tables, camping sites, and parking. Permits are required for camping. Lifeguards are on duty daily.
Waimanalo Bay Beach Park is one of Oahu most popular family beach parks because of its close proximity to urban Honolulu and suburban Kailua and Kaneohe. The small, consistent shorebreak provides excellent bodysurfing and bodyboarding opportunities for children and other novice wave riders, and the park offers good sites for picnicking and camping among its many ironwood trees.
A few of the many activities at Waimanalo are beachcombing, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, fishing, surfing and swimming.
The windward side of Oahu, including all of Waimanalo Beach, is famous for its stinging jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war. If you are susceptible to allergic reactions from bee and other insect stings, you should expect the same reactions from man-of-war stings. Check with a lifeguard before going in the water to find out if it is a man-of-war day. If no lifeguard is on duty, look at the debris line on the beach and see if there are any man-of-war in it. If there are, you may want to reconsider going in the water. At night, the single road into the park is chained, so if you are not camping and you plan to stay after sunset, be sure to note the park hours on the sign as you enter.
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